Word: dissenters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sharp dissent, Justice Hugo Black defended the 1962 decision and deflated Brennan's explanation of the court's reversal. "Nothing at all has changed," said Black, "except the membership of the court and the personal views of one Justice." Indeed, Chief Justice Earl Warren, who had sided with Black, has been replaced by Warren Burger, who voted with the majority. Justice Potter Stewart, who upheld the anti-injunction law in 1962, voted against it last week...
...This year saw three major political demonstrations of dissent from the President's war policy. The reaction of Harvard's administration and Faculty to those demonstrations changed radically. They changed at all was a prime reason that the University did not meet the fate of Kent State or Ohio State. Whether they will continue to change will determine the course of Harvard's future...
...that student demonstrators did not have to be warned that their actions were illegal in order to be prosecuted for them. In a situation where peaceful demonstrations could easily erupt into violence, the effect of this latest ruling was to scare students out of political activity and stifle legitimate dissent...
...labrary Journal called The Whole World Is Watching: A Young Man Looks at Youth's Dissent (New York: Viking Press, paper $1.25) by Mark Gerzon '70, "required reading for the over-thirty generation." The CRIMSON said. "Mark Gerzon's excursion into pop sociology reads like a work commissioned by Look Magazine.... Reaching for the profound insight. Gerzon ends up only with a smug revision of Youth Wants to Know.... Many of these ruminations on the younger generation make sense only from the myopic perspective of an Ivy League existence." Whether you will like the book depends, I, guess, on which...
...main criticism being leveled against the Moratorium by defenders of U.S. policies in Vietnam is that such public demonstrations of dissent have the effect of encouraging the National Liberation Front and their North Vietnamese allies to wait out the United States in Paris in the hope that public opinion will eventually force a withdrawal of American troops without prior concessions by the Vietnamese. Such criticisms must be troubling for many of the politicians and prominent citizens who have recently jumped on the Moratorium bandwagon, since it is undeniable that the existence of a strong anti war movement n the United...